New Challenge: Potluck Bingo
Sit down to a delicious selection of prompts served on bingo boards, created by the SWG community.
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New Challenge: Potluck Bingo
Sit down to a delicious selection of prompts served on bingo boards, created by the SWG community.
Bingo Cards Wanted for Potluck Bingo
Our November-December challenge will be Potluck Bingo, featuring cards created by you! If you'd like to create cards or prompts for cards, we are taking submissions.
Tolkien Meta Week, December 8-14
We will be hosting a Tolkien Meta Week in December, here on the archive and on our Tumblr, for nonfiction fanworks about Tolkien.
New Challenge: Orctober
Orcs on a quest for freedom seek a place sheltered and safe from the Dark Lord. Fulfill prompts to gather the clues needed to bring them to freedom.
[Artwork] 2024 Potluck Doodles by silmalope
Assorted prompt fills for the 2024 Potluck bingo boards, to varying degrees of completion! :)
[Writing] Ransom of the Fairy Twins by Rocky41_7
Maglor and Maedhros trade Elrond and Elros to King Gil-galad in exchange for a Silmaril, but they have miscalculated.
[Series] Pennas Pengolodh by AdmirableMonster
The majority of the Silmarillion was penned by a single Elf--an Elf who was so thoroughly written out as to appear only through the ways in which their perspective shaped the stories we see. This is their story, the historian's history, the Pennas Pengolodh.
[Writing] Havens by AdmirableMonster
The Exiles of Gondolin come to Sirion. The residents of Sirion welcome them, and friendship blossoms between the last remaining loremaster of Gondolin and a young poet of Sirion.
[Writing] Collection of Potluck Drabbles by Artano
This is a collection of true drabbles completed for the 'Four Words' drabble bingo card.
[Writing] Hurting Tyelpë by elennalore
Sauron has taken Celebrimbor as a prisoner in Ost-in-Edhil. Whump happens.
[Writing] On a Night of Snow by Elleth
Fingon returns to Barad Eithel after a late-autumn hunt, finding someone unexpected with his wife. The night takes an even more unexpected turn for all three of them.
Potluck Bingo
Help yourself to a collection of prompts on bingo boards designed by members and friends of the SWG. Read more ...
B2MeM 2010
Back to Middle-earth Month 2010 was a collaborative game-style challenge where participants created fanworks in order to progress in their attempt to win the Last Battle. Read more ...
Mapping Arda, Part III: The Second Age by Varda delle Stelle, Anérea
A series of articles featuring fan-made maps of all the lands of Arda. Part III explores the island of Númenor and mainland Middle-earth during the Second Age.
Doom and Ascent: The Argument of ‘Beowulf: the Monsters and the Critics’ by Simon J. Cook
Simon reads 'Beowulf: the Monsters and the Critics' to conclude his account of the Anglo-Saxon tower of its allegory.
Why People Don't Comment: Data and History From the Tolkienfic Fandom by Dawn Walls-Thumma
A reworking of the 2018 article for Long Live Feedback that includes data from the 2020 Tolkien Fanfiction Survey, pointing to a lack of comments as related to skill, confidence, and community connection.
Part of our Themed Collection series for our newsletter, this collection features fiction, artwork, and essays that transcend the idea of Orcs as the enemy, instead considering their humanity.
Alliterative Verse for Arda by Rhunedhel
Part of our Themed Collection series for our newsletter, this collection features alliterative poems about Middle-earth.
[Writing] Homage to the Song of Durin by Flora-lass
Legolas is inspired by Gimli's song - and by Gimli himself.
[Artwork] Long-tressed Wingildi by Anérea
"... the long-tressed Wingildi ... spirits of the foam and the surf of ocean."
~ a painted sketch for Scribbles and Drabbles 2024.
[Writing] Partners in Craft by elennalore
Annatar realises that he might like Celebrimbor too much.
Fluffcember 2024
Fluffcember is a Tumblr event with daily fluffy prompts during the month of December.
Hidden Paths 2025
Hidden Paths, an event dedicated to the celebration of smaller Tolkien canons, has released their early prompts for the 2025 event.
Teitho November/December Contest: Healing
The theme for Teitho's November/December contest is healing.
Lord of the Rings Secret Santa 2024
LotR SESA has been ongoing for twenty-one years and is running again this year as a prompt meme hosted on AO3 for all genres of Tolkien-based fanfiction.
Kiliel Week 2024
Kiliel Week is a Tumblr event for fanworks about the Kili/Tauriel pairing.
A beautiful continuation. This might be the most original characterization of Miriel that I've yet seen, and it's fascinating to consider how her unwittingly cruel treatment of Feanaro shapes the person that he will later become.
The moment when Finwe awakens and discovers the bed scattered with clothing works really well. Even though I've seen (and used myself) the idea of Miriel "planning" for her death by making clothes for her son through adulthood, this might be the most stunning example I've seen yet of this idea, and the wedding gown and essecarme robes indicate that she knows far more about her son's future than his father. It really adds weight to the moment in The Silmarillion when Miriel asks Finwe to hold her blameless in what comes after. I've often wondered exactly what Tolkien meant by this. The popular intepretation, when I started writing Silmfic, seemed to be "hold me blameless in my death." I've always interpretted it as meaning "hold me blameless in the deeds of my son that will largely be caused by my death" ... or caused by the larger-than-usual spiritual allotment that she has given him. This comes back to the ideas of fire that you present in Part I: something that nurtures and provides beauty and sustenance but, after a point, is equally terrible in its destruction.
Anyhoo, I am rambling. I'm really enjoying your stories and the unique angles and interpretations that you've taken. It's tempting to keep reading now, but alas, it's lunchtime. ;) But I eagerly await the final stories.
All the best,
Dawn
Hi back! Since I began reading Tolkien, Míriel´s description in the Shibboleth and the affirmation that she poured her spirit into Fëanor made me see her as a female Fëanor, or something like that. They have too many things in common, plus the idea that she poured her spirit into him.
And your interpretation of her words would make sense in the light of my story, too. My Míriel is larger than life: she does too much, and sees too much. :)
An interesting take on a very well crafted moment amidst the realm and plethora of the enigma of these persons. I say that it is indeed a job well done.
This is really intense and strikes home. A striking and meaningful way to combine both versions of Miriel's death, both that she died quickly after Feanor's birth and that she lingered.
Also, your story was recommended by AmyFortuna in this rec post: http://b2mem.livejournal.com/436445.html
There is praise for your story in the comments on the rec post as well.
[Sorry for the now deleted earlier comment--I see now that you have in fact adopted your story on AO3 already. I was just confused about that because the earlier HASA note is still in place.]
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